The most pivotal analogy I’ve come across about lead response compares a lead to a freshly captured fish and here is why it pays to be as quick with your catch as it does to be quick with leads. 

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Negotiation is a part of life. This method of discussion can help accomplish personal and professional goals set for yourself. You can negotiate a job offer to achieve a higher salary, a promotion for advancement within your organization, or a better vehicle price at the dealership.

While the Merriam-Webster Dictionary indicates the definition of success to be “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame”, I believe the true definition of success is in the eye of the beholder.

Priorities, beliefs, values, and our own varied histories all color the unique meaning we associate with such a word. Consider the following:

We all have them. Those tendencies that once started out small and innocent but have now slowly crept into our everyday routine creating, you guessed it, A BAD HABIT.

What happens when these poor practices are happening in a professional setting and not just in your personal practices at home? They pull you away from obtaining the success you are capable of and leave little room for your good habits to surface and shine.

Sure, online reviews are a nice way to sway consumers toward your product or business, but do you really know the power they carry for your company?

In the old days, voicemail was the only way for the party receiving the call to know who it came from. These days, an unanswered call gets followed by a text message, asking for a call back.

Small business owners have to find creative and cost-practical ways to generate revenue in an intensely competitive environment. This environment can be dominated by large companies that have an upper hand with a bigger budget and a high brand exposure.

Buyers are inherently skeptical — anyone who has been in sales for any length of time surely knows this. And indeed, buyers should be skeptical. They are responsible for protecting the interests of the company they work for, and you, the sales representative, are an unknown quantity. Here are actions a salesperson can take to overcome skepticism, to win buyers over as quickly as possible.

What is the very first thing your business does with a newly hired sales representative? I would venture to guess that the sales manager begins by spending a great deal of time training the new hire on the ins and outs of your product or service. But do they ever end up delving into the actual art of selling, something to help build a reps actual selling foundation? Far too often sales reps are not trained on how to properly handle customer objections.